Claude Fable 5 gave users access to Mythos-class power, but its hidden safeguards turned a safety feature into a trust problem for Anthropic.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 with safeguards for high risk tasks while limiting Mythos 5 to trusted cyber partners.

Anthropic said it could not yet release the full Claude Mythos 5 model, so instead it created Fable 5 with baked in safeguards.

One step further into the power politics of frontier AI systems.